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A01453	The portraitur of the prodigal sonne liuelie set forth in a three-fold discourse.1. Of his progresse. 2 Of his regresse. 3. Of his ioyfull welcome home. Published by Samuell Gardiner Batchler [sic] of Diuinitie.	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1599 (1599)	STC 11579; ESTC S105696	153,821	288

Against the auricular confessiō o● the papists A similitude And herein hee is the wiser For as he is vnwise who seeketh health and helpe at his handes who neither is endewed with learning to counsaile him or furnished with medicines and meanes to recouer him so are they not onely foolish but of all most miserable who in the most dāgerous diseases of their soules repaire vnto such dogleeches paultrie pesants who haue neither wit to counsaile or grace to comfort thē To what ende therefore is that beggarlie rudiment of auticular confession Our running vnto monkes sacrificing shauelings whispering in their eares and confessing our sinnes to them an idle ceremonie an inuention of mans braine founded as it is supposed by Pope Innocent the thirde ●●b 6. ca. 16. or as So●zomen imagineth ordained by Bishops especiallie by the bishops of the west parts There is no precept and warrant for it in the holy scriptures albeit to make them serue their lewde fancies they diuelishlie depraue manie places of the scriptures But these Balaamites wounde themselues with their owne Launcers and wee will cut off the heade of Goliah of Gath as Dauid did with his owne sworde The argumēts of the papists for auricular confession propoūded dissolued A chiefe reason which they alledge to make their matter good is an ancient lawe prouided by God for leprous persons who are willed by God to resort vnto the priest appointed by God to be a iudge of their disease They dispute in this wise Leprosy is to bee shewed vnto the priest and leapers by the Argument 1 law were to go vnto the priest so Christ cōmanded the Leper in the gospel Matth. 8 but sinne is leaprosie and euerie sinner is a spirituall Leper Wherefore euerie sinne is to be shewed vnto the priest and euerie sinner must confesse vnto the priest This argument hangs together like a sicke mans dreame and concludeth nothing I meruaile by this argument why the popish priestes doe not drawe to themselues all contagious and leprous persons since this outward leprosie must bee iudged of by the priest If they stand so much vpon it I could wish that all noisome and plaguy persons might croud vnto them as beggars to a dole to shew their botches carbuncles and biles that they might iudge of them But this leprosie they will saie is meerelie allegoricall it signifieth the spirituall leprosie of sinne Then we answere that the reason is constrained there is no certaine sense and meaning in an allegory for allegories may be wrested and wroung to and fro and be diuerslie vnderstoode We aunswere more fullie that the olde Leuiticall priesthoode is altered it is wholie translated to Christ our high priest to whome nowe alone wee must confesse our sinnes That lawe was ciuill and serued for those times it is nowe repealed and is no more in force Christ willed the leper to goe vnto the priest according to the lawe because as yet Moses his lawe was in force and our Sauiour Christ came to bee obedient vnto it as hee himselfe witnesseth Matt. 5 and not to breake it Another reason which carieth some countenance Argument 2 and credit with it in outwarde appearance Mattth 3 is formed in this wise They came to Iohn the Baptist and confessed their sinnes wherefore in the like sort we must come vnto the priest and confesse our sinnes Here we desire more wit of them for their logicke faileth them We yeeld that the confession of sinnes is necessarie and it is no maruaile that the people did confesse them whē they came to Iohne for Iohn then baptized and they came vnto his baptisme Now baptisme is the signe and token of repentance and confession of sinnes is a branch of this Tree and a member of repentaunce But all this while this their repentaunce and confession of their sinnes fauoureth not as I can see their auricular confession For they confessed their sinnes publikelie they came not creeping vnto Iohn the Baptist and tolde him priuatelie of them in his eare This all the dunsicall Sorbonistes cannot proue without which we plainelie see that they delude and mock vs and do proue nothing Argument 3 An other place of Scripture which is taken from the nineteene Chapter of the Actes Acts. 1● and the eighteene verse of the Ephesians who confessed and shewed their works hath the selfe same aunswere with the former and one thorne stoppeth well these two gappes their confession there was publique it was not priuate in the priests eare Argument 4 And truly the saying of the Apostle Iames acknowledge your faults one to another Iacob 5 doth them as little pleasure as the former testimonies for the Apostle speaketh of mutuall offences betweene neighbour and neighbour and of mutuall reconcilement to be made betweene them by their mutuall acknowledgement of them The priest standeth bound by the tenour of these wordes to confesse his own sins in the peoples eares aswell as the people are in the priests eares They dote very much vppon this aphorisme of Salomon are much cōceited in it He that hideth Argument 5 his sins shall not prosper but he that confesseth thē Pro. 28.13 and forsaketh them shall haue mercie But this argument is most weake it hath no iointes or sinewes in it It wholie respecteth the confession of our sins before almightie God and not the confession of them to the world and least of all the auricular papisticall confession I might heape vp infinite beggerlie and doltish reasons but the more we stir a dunghill Esai 43.11 25. the more it stinketh therfore I will not infect your godlie sences with them God saith by the mouth of his Prophet Esay I am he and besides me there is none that putteth away thine iniquities and thy sinnes Therefore to whome shoulde wee confesse our sinnes but onelie to him who can forgiue vs our sinnes The prodigall son in this his forme of confession hath a verie good Methode and his wordes are verie sutable and fall out fitlie into his purpose He rather chooseth to call him father then his Lord or maister Why the prodigal son calleth him father rather then Lord and maister albeit he is both and all in all vnto him For hereby he hath boldnesse and accesse vnto his presence A sonne without offence may aske more of his father then a seruant of his maister The name of a father is an inticing name it setteth wide open the euerlasting gates of mercie for euery prodigall repentant sonne Matt. 6 at all times to enter in Wherefore Christ in his formall praier prescribed vnto vs maketh an entrance thereunto with this title and prefixeth in the forefront to giue grace to such petitions preferred afterwardes the sweete name of Father Iohn 8 The Iewes vaunted and boasted exceedinglie that they had Abraham to their father how ought we much more to reioice and be glad hauing God to be our father Rom. 8